Archive for January 4, 2012

In a recent employment law case argued in Federal court in Tampa, the court ruled that because his disability was open and obvious, an employee did not need to ask for obviously needed accommodations from his employer. The court allowed employee to proceed with his accommodations claim as well as his employment law disability and retaliation claims against the City of Venice. Tampa employment lawyer James M. Thompson represented the employee.

Reprinted by permission of CCH’s Employment Law Daily. © 2011 CCH Incorporated. All Rights Reserved.

A police department records clerk who was injured while employed

The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that an employee could maintain a claim of retaliation even when he himself did not engage in the protected activity of filing a discrimination charge. The Court reasoned that an employer may engage in retaliation against an employee who complains of discrimination by taking action against others as well as against the complaining employee. When the employer does so, the employee who was adversely affected can maintain his own action for retaliation even if he was not the person who engaged in protected activity. To